Namby Pamby Quotes

#1. You'd be surprised. Girls like sensitive, namby-pamby guys.

Lizzy Caplan

#2. Brave, bold men, these are what we want. What we want is vigour in the blood, strength in the nerves, iron muscles and nerves of steel, not softening namby-pamby ideas.

Swami Vivekananda

#3. Roosevelt got a chance to name an amazing nine justices of the Supreme Court. He was not namby-pamby on this question. He wanted people who shared his views, he wanted liberals, and he wanted lots of them.

Noah Feldman

#4. Ambrose Phillips ... who had the honor of bringing into fashion a species of composition which has been called, after his name, Namby Pamby.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#5. Namby-pamby little routines that don't speed up your heartbeat and make you sweat aren't worth your while.

Jane Fonda

#6. I'm a big Bruce Lee fan, and if I saw Bruce Lee try to be some namby-pamby lawyer, I'd want my money back.

Jason Statham

#7. Martha Washington. I think she's done herself a disservice in history with a little cap, you know? She looks like a namby-pamby little grandmotherly type, but she turned out to be a very strong woman.

Cokie Roberts

#8. 'Battleship' is not a film that Francois Truffaut would have made. Nor would any of those other namby-pamby European directors. Nope, this picture eschews that Continental obsession with small stories, set in quaint towns filled with pockmarked folk doing their banal things.

Seth Shostak

#9. Thank goodness we don't live in medieval times, when people fought wars over ideas.

Wojciech Jaruzelski

#10. There's so many things that we could do.

Ashley Olsen

#11. I'm here to serve God and be of service. I'm nothing; everything out here is a lot bigger than me.

Mike Tyson

#12. A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden, swinging perfume from every little censer it holds up in the air.

Henry Ward Beecher

#13. The "trick" is to develop formal mathematical definitions that have known graph theoretic properties, and also capture important intuitive and theoretical aspects of cohesive subgroups.

Katherine Faust